The View are to play a second Christmas show at Fat Sam’s after tickets for their first night on Wednesday December 21 all but sold out.
They have now added another gig the following night.
Tickets for the show only went on sale on Wednesday and by Thursday afternoon more than 900 had been sold for the 1000-capacity venue.
Guitarist Pete Reilly said: ”The Christmas shows are gonna be bangin’! We are chuffed to be playing two nights back home.”
A spokesman for the band added: ”Due to the amazing speed the first show sold out we thought we should do another to avoid leaving fans disappointed.”
Fat Sam’s director Angus Robb said he was delighted with the second gig.
”It’s fantastic news and it just shows the continuing popularity of The View. In these days when it’s getting more difficult to sell out venues, The View are one of the few bands in Scotland who could attract this demand for tickets.”
Local businessman Charlie Kean, who has organised VIP treatment at the gigs for several youngsters through his charity operation, said: ”This is amazing. It will help brighten up Christmas for the kids and give them something special to look forward to.”
The gigs will be the Dryburgh boys’ first full shows in their home town since selling out the Caird Hall in April.
Speaking earlier in the week before the second gig was announced, band manager Grant Dickson said: ”I was talking to Gus (director) at Fat Sam’s a week or so ago and telling him that there were a lot of people asking for a Dundee show to be added to the Christmas tour that the band were doing, and he made a great offer that seemed to solve the problem.
”It also gives the band a chance to do some local charity work with the kids from Ninewells Hospital, which has become a sort of tradition.”
Last April’s gig saw a group of Dundee youngsters invited to mingle with the band after getting the chance to meet their music idols. The teenagers, who were all patients at Ninewells, were given a special backstage pass to meet The View before their concert.
Local charity Kean’s Children’s Fund organised the dream tickets for the group and a similar offer is being made by the band for the Fat Sam’s concerts.
Guitarist Pete Reilly said the whole band is desperate to play in Dundee again.
”We’re obviously all delighted we all wanted to play a Christmas gig in Dundee,” he said. ”It’s always a great time to play in your home town and we’re looking forward to having a great night at Fat Sam’s.
”Loads of our fans have been asking why we didn’t have a Dundee date on the tour but we were always going to try to get a show here for Christmas.
”Ever since we played The Courier’s Rocktalk Dundee Showcase gig at Fatties back in 2005 we’ve loved playing big Christmas shows in Dundee and it’s great to be back again this year.
”Personally I can’t wait and the rest of the boys are the same. It’ll be a great party and it’ll be brilliant to see all our fans at a gig in Dundee again.”
Their Scottish tour starts on December 17 with a show at the Glen Pavilion in Dunfermline, followed by The Ironworks in Inverness, two Glasgow ABC shows on December 19 and 20 and then the Fat Sam’s shows.
The band are also playing a Hogmanay gig at the Aberdeen SECC.
Tickets for the Dundee dates are available from www.fatsams.co.uk and from Groucho’s.